Rom 6:4-9 | Family | STEP | We also should walk in newness of life ; for our death with Christ to sin implies our resurrection with Christ to God, which is to us a new life of holiness. See on verses .

Romans 6:4-9

We also should walk in newness of life; for our death with Christ to sin implies our resurrection with Christ to God, which is to us a new life of holiness. See on verses Ro 6:10,11. Planted together; that is, as the original word implies, closely united, namely, with Christ.

We shall be also; closely united with Christ. Our dying with Christ to sin, implies our rising with Christ to God. Verses Ro 6:10,11. Our old man; our natural love of sin, and inclination to commit it.

Is crucified with him; a repetition of the idea that we die with Christ to sin. The apostle uses the word crucified with reference to the manner of our Lord's death; perhaps also to intimate the lingering and painful nature of the process by which the old man dies, to give place to the new man.

The body of sin; the same as "the law of sin which is in my members," chap Ro 7:23, which in the old man controls the body, making it a body of sin and death, chap Ro 7:24. For he that is dead; that is, as the context shows, he that has died to sin. Compare verse Ro 6:18. Dead with Christ; in the sense above explained--one with him in sympathy, desire, and effort as to the object of his death, the deliverance of his people from sin.

We believe that we shall also live with him; be like him, through communications received from him, in living to God, even as the branch is like the vine. Joh 14:19; Joh 15:5; Heb 7:25.